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Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
In the end truth will out.
In the end truth will out.
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the
attempt.
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the
attempt.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
Hope is the poore mans bread.